I was wondering if anybody can help to explain the results I'm seeing when resilvering a disk in only one of the mirrored VDEVs in my Zpool. If I understand Mirrors properly, resilvering one should only need to read the other drive in that same mirrored VDEV. What I am observing is that the...

I'm creating a new pool as my current pool raidz2 8x2T drives is nearing 90%. I have four 6T drives and two 5T drives. I keep debating which setup I want to go with as I do plan on replacing the two 5T drives with 6T drives in the future. I figured by the time this new pool gets close to full...

Hello, I have a pool that I was trying to upgrade from 6 x 3TB drives to 6 x 4TB drives by replacing one drive at a time. I have used ZFS on a Mac (OS X) for 6 years and have been using FreeNAS for the last 2 years. I've done this same type of replacement/upgrade move many times through the...

Hi all, we've been running a freenas 20TB test environment for the last few months and all works great - now we're looking to expand and could use some advice. We are using the FreeNAS as the destination for disk based backups of production VMs and wanted to see if anyone could provide input on...

Hey there! Long time lurker first time poster. Running: FreeNAS-9.10.2-U1 (86c7ef5) I have the following setup installed to a 24-bay personal server in rows of four. This was a clean build, nothing transitioned or upgraded. 4x 6TB WD Red 8x 3TB WD Red My hope was to use each row as its own...

I have a new system built (thanks for verifying the hardware specs btw) with 12 drives, mixing SAS and SATA controllers, the board is a Supermicro that allows up to 16 drives in total. - RAM on the system is maxed out. 32 to 64GB RAM. No SSD caches of any kind for ZLOG/ZIL,etc. Now the system...